AI hot money floods into Japan, SoftBank's 17% surge is just the appetizer? Foreign investors have been buying trillions of yen in eight weeks, and the tech narrative is reshaping the Tokyo Stock Exchange landscape.

Crypto World News reports that driven by the AI boom, as of May 23, foreign investors have bought Japanese stocks for the eighth consecutive week, with a net purchase of 1.08 trillion yen (about $10.8k), a nearly 14% increase from the previous week. The technology sector has attracted significant investment, with Nvidia predicting explosive demand for its flagship AI chips, and SoftBank Group's stock price soaring 17.62%. So far this year, foreign investors have injected nearly 11.7 trillion yen into the Japanese stock market, compared to a net purchase of approximately 742.1 billion yen during the same period last year. Meanwhile, Japanese long-term bonds saw a net purchase of 1.35 trillion yen, while short-term bonds were reduced by 2.22 trillion yen, reaching the highest level since March 28.